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KPMG Lighthouse

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Our historyCenter of Excellence for Advanced Analytics drives Data & Analytics (D&A) at the world’s largest enterprises

KPMG is a global firm

KPMG US lighthouse data & analytics CoE

154Countries

$26.4BIn Revenue

Ignition Centers & Insights Centers

Part of a global network of 6 Lighthouse Centers of Excellence

Focus on collaboration and client delivery

~50 PhD resources, and 130 with advanced degrees

700+

200k+

Offices

Professionals

D&A core offices

Lighthouse team members

10+

250+

Partnerships and Alliances

KPMG’s portfolio of Artificial Intelligence Capabilities

Data components

— Text/Semi-Structured

— Image

— Speech

— Structured data

Algorithms and tools

— Unsupervised learning

— Supervised learning

— Reinforcement learning

— Knowledge-based systems

— Natural language generation

— Natural language processing

— Deep learning

41%

12%

16%

21%

9%Data scientists

BD/SWE

D&A consultant

D&A modeler

D&A Engineer


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How do we serve clients?The Lighthouse specializes in two broad categories of advanced analytics engagements.

Modeling & engineering

Strategic transformation

Deployment of technology-enabled analytics solutions to answer our clients’ specific business problems

D&A strategy and transformation services that assist clients in developing their own in-house D&A capabilities

What do we do?Our portfolio of services focus on solving our clients’ specific business needs, or enabling them to develop D&A capabilities. This takes a strong combination of analytics experience, trustworthy data, and industry/functional knowledge to properly frame the problem and develop continuously self-improving insights.

Analytical modeling

Data visualization

Data engineering

Analytics strategy

Big data systems

— Optimization

— Predictive modeling

— Sentiment analytics

— Supervised/ unsupervised machine learning

— Cognitive intelligence

— Statistics/clustering

— Decision science

— D&A strategic assessment

— D&A target operating model & implementation

— Idea generation workshops

— Big Data architecture

— Data aggregation/integration

— Application design & build (Cloud or On-prem)

— Hosting — Business intelligence (Discovery)

— Interactive dashboards, reports, & scenario tools

— Design-thinking in UI/UX

— Information extraction& retrieval/ETL

— Unstructured data processing

— Text mining & natural language processing (NLP)



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Can we do real data science?Lighthouse resources are proficient in the latest data analytics and statistical skills.

Statistics & modeling Supervised techniques

Natural language processing (NLP)

Big data architecture

Unsupervised learning & clustering

Information extraction & retrieval

— Bayesian Data Analysis

— Discrete Choice Models

— Exploratory Data Analysis

— Linear Regression

— Monte Carlo Methods

— Panel data/longitudinal data

— Statistical Estimation Adaptive Filtering

— Survival Analysis

— Time series analysis

— Advanced Regression

— Decision Trees

— Ensemble Methods

— Random Forests

— Logistic Regression

— Deep Neural Networks

— Support Vector Machines

Decision science/ops research

Data mining & machine learning

— Decision Theory

— LP/Mixed Integer Programming

— Stochastic Processes & Queuing Theory

— Dimension Reduction

— Feature Selection

— Large-Scale Machine Learning & Algorithms

— Social Network Analysis and Mining

— Ensemble Methods and Random Forests

— Supervised Techniques: SVM

— Supervised Techniques: Neural Networks

— Supervised Techniques: Decision Trees

— Supervised Techniques: Logistic Regression

— Unsupervised Learning & Clustering: (K-Means, LDA)

— Machine Translation

— Named Entity Recognition (NER)

— Part-of-Speech Tagging

— Sentence Parsing and Chunking

— Sentiment Analysis & Text Classification

— Topic Modeling & Key Phrase Extraction

— Word Sense Disambiguation

— Cloud Computing

— MapReduce

— Stream Processing

— Unsupervised Learning & Clustering

— K-Means

— LDA

— Document Clustering

— Fuzzy Matching and Term Weighting

— Link Analysis

— Web Crawling

— Web Scraping



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Data Insights

What technologies do we use? What does the industry think?Industry analysts have placed KPMG Data & Analytics among their top-ranked analytics service providers.

Forrester Wave™ Insight Service Providers

Q1 2017

The Lighthouse has a technology stack comprised of open source & commercial technologies.

Lighthouse professionals are best-in-breed & platform agnostic.

Lighthouse team has extensive experience in using efficient and effective combinations of technologies to solve complex client problems.

Challengers

Strong

Current offering

Weak

Weak Strategy Strong

Contenders Strong performers Leaders

KPMGDeloitte

Accenture Digital

MckinseyInfosys

IBMEY

WiproAtos

Capgemini

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2014

2015

2016

Niche

Visionary

Leader

Within 3 years Gartner has moved KPMG Data & Analytics up in its rankings

KPMG cracked the code for balancing business and technology expertise. KPMG comes to the table with an impressive portfolio of data and analytic 3s capabilities, brought together in its Lighthouse Center of Excellence (CoE).

Recognizing the importance of trust in an insights provider, KPMG’s comprehensive approach to bridging a potential ‘trust gap’ includes collaboration to define business objectives, design engagements, and deliver results.

— Industry analysts at Forrester

— KPMG Proprietary Data

— Blue Health Intelligence

— CMS — IBM Infosphere

— Move it sFTP

— Mosaic

— Microsoft Azure data factory

— Informatica

— PostgreSQL

— Microsoft SQL Server

— Hortonworks

— Microsoft SQL Azure

— Spark

— Netezza

— GitLab

— Alteryx

— R Studio

— Java

— Apache Solr

— SAS

— Google Cloud Platform

— Microsoft Azure

— Pentaho

— Spotfire

— Tableau

— QlikView

— D3.js

— Power BI

— Unstructured/Web data

Third-party Data

Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)

Data Storage & Database

Systems

Advanced Analytics

Visualizations



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Data scientists — Strong experience in analytics, statistics,

data mining, machine learning, natural language processing and/or mathematics

— Problem-solving ability through the use and/or development of algorithms, models, testing, etc.

— Generally MS or PhD-level math, statistics, or engineering

D&A modelers — Strong business consulting acumen and

statistical background, combined with real-world experience in developing analytics models to solve business issues

— Practical, hands-on understanding of advanced analytics methods and big data software; strong experience in providing effective & efficient client solutions

Big data software engineers — Strong experience with large scale and/or

distributed processing, using Hadoop, Storm, Spark, and many others

— Sophisticated ability to rapidly ingest, transform and mine data

— Ability to evaluate, design, build, test and manage “big data” architectures

D&A engineers — Strong experience working in teams to perform

ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) of data from variety of databases, from SQL, NoSQL, HDFS

— Expert ability to engineer efficient data platforms for analytics systems, including visualizations and machine learning pipelines

Our peopleA dedicated team of 250+ professionals across the U.S. with advanced D&A skills.



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